July 19, 2024
QUOTE
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you’d be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
--James Garner
BIRTHDAYS
1814 – Samuel Colt, Founded the Colt’s Manufacturing Company
1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer
1894 – Percy Spencer, Physicist and inventor of the microwave oven
1929 – Gaston Glock, Engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock
1947 – Brian May, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist
IN MEMORY
1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
2014 – James Garner, American actor
2016 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer
IN ON THIS DAY
AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth. In 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched. It was the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.